Comments on: ActionScript 3 Tutorial - What Happened to getURL?

By: jean roman

jean roman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:18:43 +0000

ps…
also wondering why the code you provided (reverse on placement of the “addEventListner”) did not work unless placed after the FUNCTION }

FYI: my System: OS X 10.5.4 using CS3 Prod. Suite / FLASH AS3

any thoughts on that frustrating oddity? I mean for heavens sake I tried it every which way, until I found the above reverse code (note: as you say the function can be named anything… in this case “getLink” was the given name to the code I found that worked)

meanwhile… and still working on multiple CLICKS same code on different buttons / instance names… any help will be appreciated to make this deadline >.|

By: jean roman

jean roman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:28:18 +0000

Found a CODE that works great (but only for one btn)
(http://www.mandalatv.net/fcny/)

however, just major problem: following code only allows one click.
Question: How would you REcode this to make it work
for multiple (x4) Buttons in same scene / page

function getLink(event:MouseEvent):void{
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”http://www.happyCODE”);
navigateToURL(request, “”);
}
Button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, getLink);

By: jean roman

jean roman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:22:41 +0000

Craig,
if you want to use CS3/AS3 to update your site. it’s all very frustrating ~ and means recoding entire site ~ MAKES no sense and a BIG waste of precious time to redo older work.

I have tried all of the above to no avail ~ just won’t work??

1) if you have a main stage timeline and on that a MC with a Button inside that on another timeline WHERE do you put the code?

2) do you have to instance name the MC or the BTN inside the MC
I just don’t get it

it used to be so easy just to put the code on the BTN (which was inside a MC on the main stage)

i.e. please help translate this: code which used to be on BTN (which was inside a MC)

on (release) {
getURL(’http://www.VERY_FRUSTRATED_with_ADOBE_ASS3″);
}

will appreciate all your help… I’m in a bind to get this done

jean roman

By: martart

martart — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:15:50 +0000

Thanks Craig, worked for me.
I agree… what used to be so easy is now so much harder.
What some people might be missing from this tutorial and why it is not working for them is that you MUST name your button ‘myButton’ in the properties inspector for the above code to work.
You can name the button anything you like as long as it’s the same name in the first line of code. Also, make sure you convert the code to Plain Text if copying and pasting the code.

By: bill-hawaii

bill-hawaii — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:06:43 +0000

Try not using the word - request - for your var name

the word ‘request’ turns blue in my ActionScript panel - This means ‘request’ is part of Flash’s pre-defined vocabulary.

try replace ‘request’ with a descriptive name like ‘whatWebPage’

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:55:20 +0000

security warning is on local, you have to give permission for the .swf for local access to domains outside of your system… upload ftp to your server hosting directory and you shouldn’ thave problems.

someone had issues with (henny?) errors, turns out some quotes are forward double quotes or two single quotes used as a double quote and Flash isn’t reading the quote tags in the function calls correctly.
so use:
URLRequest(”http://www.google.com”);
not
URLRequest(”http://www.google.com”);
not
URLRequest(”http://www.google.com”);

the ascii code for ” is different then ”

not sure if this text box will convert the text for me…

By: radikian

radikian — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:09:24 +0000

You’re simply the best!! thanks a lot!

By: Henning

Henning — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:15:49 +0000

why do i get an error message?

button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick)

function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”http://www.fedhealth.co.za”);
navigateToURL(request,”_blank”);
}

By: Anne Marie

Anne Marie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:02:34 +0000

There was an earlier post that pretty well framed my question - What if you just want it to go to a url when the movie is over? I don’t need a button, just want to have the user brought over to a new web page once the flash movie has finished. I’m very new to Flash and would appreciate any help on this. How is that done?

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:24:21 +0000

Sneed: The actions need to be placed in the timeline where the button is placed, not in the button’s timeline. For example, if you placed your button on the main stage, you need give your button an instance name, then create a new layer on the main stage’s timeline for your ActionScript. If your button is in frame 1 of the main timeline, then you don’t need to add an extra keyframe, because there’s already a keyframe in frame 1 when you create the layer.

Hope this helps!

Craig